The Eldense Gazette
Squad23 Aug 2027
A fracture rules Rober Ibáñez out for 121 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Eldense will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match23 Aug 2027
Every point is an argument now for Eldense
Position 19 and 38 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market23 Aug 2027
Guillermo Martínez puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Eldense, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad23 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Eldense
Simone Pontisso and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom23 Aug 2027
6 academy players handed senior numbers at Eldense
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Home is on Gustavo Nicola's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Eldense are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad23 Aug 2027
Fidel Chaves falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Transfer targets23 Aug 2027
Eldense rebuffed over Ognjen Teofilović
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Ibiza have kept their man, and Eldense go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market23 Aug 2027
One of our own: Izei Castro joins the Eldense first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Izei Castro is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Víctor Ramírez steps up from the Eldense academy
- Market One of our own: Héctor Lorenzo joins the Eldense first team
- Boardroom A promise the Eldense board did not keep